Writing Research Cluster
The University of Canberra’s Writing Research Cluster aims to work both in conventional and creative/practice-led research to develop knowledge about writing in, about and through social issues and about ways of representing knowledge through different modes of writing.
The Cluster’s concerns focus particularly on issues associated with the production of creative literary and narrative works (including non-fiction and journalism), addressing such questions as:
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how are techniques of judgment put to work in the production and reception of literary objects;
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what capacity might representative acts have to achieve a given outcome in the world; and
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on what are aesthetic judgments based?
The Cluster also aims to investigate and analyse infrastructural aspects of the writing domain, including the use of social software and interactivity in the production of narratives and communities of writers. The Cluster will engage with a variety of scholarly and creative communities, and external agencies and institutions in order to advance its research objectives.
Cluster research threads
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Writing well: questions of aesthetic, ethical and political evaluations of writing and narrative forms.
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Writing infrastructure: investigations into contemporary social, cultural and intellectual mechanisms, including the use of social software, to construct and/or facilitate writing practice, engagement with audiences, the construction of writer communities, research hubs and interactive practice.
Members
Academic staff
Prof Greg Battye - online writing and narrative theory
Dr Scott Brook - creative writing, cultural policy studies, governmentality studies and Vietnamese Australian public culture.
Dr Anthony Eaton - creative writing, children's and young adult literature
Dr Paul Hetherington - poetry, editing and literary studies
Assoc Prof Paul Magee - poetry, aesthetics, epistemology, psychoanalysis and Marxian thought
Ms Felicity Packard - screenwriting and editing
Prof Matthew Ricketson - narrative journalism and the future of journalism
Prof Jen Webb - creative writing, visual text and cultural theory
Dr Jordan Williams - literature, the body, the city
Affiliates
Adjuncts/Emeritus
Dr John Scott
2010 Cluster theme
The 2010 theme for the Writing Research Cluster is ‘Making’.
Contact
All enquiries to the Writing Research Cluster Chair, Assistant Professor Paul Hetherington, 61 2 6201 2996; mail to:
Paul.hetherington@canberra.edu.au